Where is the NCAA men's lacrosse championship? Final Four to be played in Virginia
Here's a closer look at the 2026 NCAA Men's Lacrosse Final Four, including the location, teams and schedule
Over Memorial Day weekend, an NCAA Division I men’s lacrosse champion will be crowned. The race for a national championship is down to its final four participants, with Duke , Syracuse, Notre Dame and Princeton earning spots in the national semifinals of the 2026 NCAA Tournament , which will take place on Saturday, May 23. Where is it that the winning team will hoist up a trophy on Monday?
Here’s a closer look at the location of this year’s NCAA men’s lacrosse championship: REQUIRED READING: 'Ridiculous athlete' Matt Jeffery excels in two sports for Notre Dame Where is the NCAA men’s lacrosse championship? The semifinals and championship game of the 2026 NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Tournament will take place at Scott Stadium in Charlottesville, Virginia. The 94-year-old venue is on the campus of the University of Virginia and serves as the home stadium for the Cavaliers’ football team.
This year marks the third time Scott Stadium has hosted the men’s lacrosse semifinals and national championship and the first since 1982. The event was originally scheduled to be held at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, the home of the NFL’s New England Patriots, but the site was chosen as one of the host sites for the 2026 FIFA World Cup, which begins next month. The conflict necessitated a change, with the NCAA announcing Scott Stadium as the replacement venue on May 24, 2025.
The 61,500-seat stadium will be the first venue on a college campus to host the Division I lacrosse national championship since 2002, when it was played at Rutgers. "The Division I Men's Lacrosse Committee is excited to head to Charlottesville for a fantastic championship experience in 2026," Matt Colagiovanni, the committee chair and deputy athletics director at Rutgers, said in a statement last year . "We are thrilled to work with the University of Virginia staff and local community to provide an outstanding championship experience for the student-athletes as the event returns to a college campus setting.